Optical fiber has long since replaced copper wiring in core information networks. But that’s not the case for free-space optical (FSO) communications using optical lasers to transmit data through the air. Despite FSO having the potential to provi...
Dec 1, 2022
Researchers invent new method to treat obesity by using cationic nanomaterials that can target specific areas of fat and inhibit the unhealthy storage of enlarged fat cells.
Dec 1, 2022
Clean hydrogen energy is a good alternative to fossil fuels and is critical for achieving carbon neutrality. Researchers around the world are looking for ways to enhance the efficiency and lower the cost of hydrogen production, particularly by imp...
Dec 1, 2022
![Plant Cell’s Nanobodies Can Now Block Certain Pathogens [Study]](https://statnano.com/resource/amar_rss_definition/files/images/21/1/thumbnail_df2940a7feeb225d5a3155ec3a39670a.jpg)
Read on to know how plant cells can block certain pathogens and viruses.
Dec 1, 2022
Researchers have long been working on how to treat obesity, a serious condition that can lead to hypertension, diabetes, chronic inflammation, and cardiovascular diseases. Studies have also revealed a strong correlation of obesity and cancer—recen...
Dec 1, 2022
Many photochemical processes rely on UV light from inefficient or toxic light sources that the LED technology cannot replace for technical reasons. An international team of scientists led by Professor Christoph Kerzig of Johannes Gutenberg Univers...
Dec 1, 2022
Materials made of nanodiamonds could be used as inexpensive photocatalysts. But up until now, high-energy UV light was needed for these carbon nanoparticles to become active. The DIACAT consortium has created and examined various nanodiamond mater...
Dec 1, 2022
The quantum realm of atomic particles is embedded with randomness. Still, precise control of quantum systems, such as quantum computers, is of great importance for modern quantum science and prospective quantum technology.
Dec 1, 2022
Chinese researchers have designed a gas-liquid two-phase flow-based triboelectric nanogenerator (GL-TENG) with ultrahigh output power, according to a research article recently published in Science Advances.
Dec 1, 2022
Controlling microscopic processes is inherently challenging. The everyday tools we use to manipulate matter on the macroscale can't simply be shrunk down to the size of cell, and even if they could, the physical forces they rely on work diffe...
Dec 1, 2022
